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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 350

Yellow Gold Single Button Artillerie Chronograph Movado, Swiss, Ref. 2570. Made circa 1940, for the Eastern European market. Fine and rare, mid-sized, water-resistant, 14K yellow gold wristwatch, with single button chronograph, tachometer, and telemeter. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, polished, inset winding crown, screwed-down back, stepped bezel, lapidated lugs, chronograph button at 2 o?clock for start-stop and return to zero functions. D. Brushed silver with applied yellow gold Breguet numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions, outer tachometer scale and inner spiral telemeter scale. Yellow gold baton hands. M. 10"' rhodium-plated, oeilde- perdrix decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 11 mm.